On a recent Thursday morning, Laura Witjens marched along the
over-full concourse of Waterloo station looking for suitable young men.
She carried two white T-shirts, each bearing a block-capital
inscription: “I AM A VERY SPECIAL MAN” and “I AM A SPERM DONOR”.
The plan was to show unsuspecting commuters one followed by the other, to test a theory that might have seemed self-evident: men were happy to be seen as special, but they were less eager to talk about their sperm.
Witjens, a striking blonde Dutchwoman wearing a black-and-white striped dress, picked out a young man with slicked-back hair named Andrey, who was handing out samples of a new Dior perfume. Witjens said she’d take one if he spoke to her for 20 seconds.
“If I tell you you’re a very special man, how would you feel?” she asked.\ “Well it can either go one way or another,” Andrey said, smile budding. “Arnold Schwarzenegger or disabled.”
Read more: Britain: Desperately seeking sperm donors | Sophie Elmirst | UK news | The Guardian
The plan was to show unsuspecting commuters one followed by the other, to test a theory that might have seemed self-evident: men were happy to be seen as special, but they were less eager to talk about their sperm.
Witjens, a striking blonde Dutchwoman wearing a black-and-white striped dress, picked out a young man with slicked-back hair named Andrey, who was handing out samples of a new Dior perfume. Witjens said she’d take one if he spoke to her for 20 seconds.
“If I tell you you’re a very special man, how would you feel?” she asked.\ “Well it can either go one way or another,” Andrey said, smile budding. “Arnold Schwarzenegger or disabled.”
Read more: Britain: Desperately seeking sperm donors | Sophie Elmirst | UK news | The Guardian
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